On Tuesday, October 11, a video showing Chidinma Ojukwu confessing to k!lling Usifo Michael Ataga, the CEO of Super TV, by herself was shown at a Lagos High Court proceeding at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS).
The main suspect in Ataga’s murder is Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level mass communication student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
Ataga could be seen in the footage lying on the ground with his hands outstretched while donning a white singlet and blood-stained boxers. He had blood on the floor to his right, and his head was close to the wall.
Large black stains could also be seen on the floor, pillow, and duvet cover.
During an interrogation by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Olusegun Bamidele from the Intelligence and Tactical Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, Yaba, Chidinma Ojukwu described how she first spoke to Ataga. She said she met Ataga through a friend, and the two struck up a conversation.
He asked her to find a location for them to stay on June 13, 2021, so she found the short-let apartment where they consumed food, alcohol, and drugs, and he was killed.
She said;
“After I got the place on Sunday, we were smoking loud, drinking, watching movies and then I went to get food. The drug we were taking got finished and I ordered another one and went downstairs to get it from the delivery guy in the morning; that was on June 14, 2021.
“Then on Tuesday, we drank and smoked loudly. I added Rophynol to his drink and we had s3x. I was on the bed and he was on the chair. Then later he started disturbing me for more s3x. I was tired and after struggling with him, he had his way and still wanted more.
“He wanted it, he was no longer himself and I thought he was no more interested in s3x, only for him to return to the bed to ask for more s3x. I pushed him away, which resulted in him hitting his head against a stool that had a glass. He had a cut on his leg and he became weak.
“I got a knife and st@bbed him in the neck, ribs and stomach so that he would not be able to harm me. I tied his hands with a handkerchief.
“His blood was out and I was scared.